Koodalur and kapisthalam

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Dear Diwakar swamy,

It is heart breaking to read your mail, regarding the

status of our beloved perumals, thayars and the bhattars

who are taking care of our beloved ones in the various

divyadesams. Tears rolled out of adiyen's eyes on seeing

your mail.

Adiyen had a similar experience in Nathan Koil divyadesam

in the past. As per the shastras, whenever we go to any

temple or to meet an acharyan, we should never go empty

handed. We should go alteast with some flowers/fruits etc.

But what a sorry state, that the loka nayagan and nayagi

are in such a poor state that, mere fruits and flowers

wont suffice. They expect something more from their

children. Is it not our responsibilty to fulfil our parents?

It is our earnest duty that we should see them in a happy

frame of mind. Adiyen has a sincere request to make to all

the saha baagavatas, who will be visiting divyadesams in

the future. Let us make it a point that, whenever we visit

any divyadesam in the future, which is in poor state of

affairs, let us all go prepared with the following items.

 

1. Vastarams for various sannadhis (dhothis it can be 10 X 6)

2. utthriyams (it can be some 5 X 4 dhotis)

3. vastarams for thayars

4. sufficient quantity of Oil (for lighting lamps)

5. Sufficient quantity of thiris (for lighting lamps)

6. Get some broom sticks from the local market where the temple

is, so that we ourselves can clean the prakarams

7. Bag of rice

8. Some other spices

9. Ghee

10. Reasonable amount of cash, to be given to bhattars.

 

Adiyen has just produced the list on the fly, whatever came

to adiyens mind. It is left to the discretion of the

individual bhavatas to take something additional in sufficient

quantities.

 

So, please make it a point that never go empty handed. Its

adiyens humble request.

 

Azhwar Emperumaanar Jeeyar thiruvadigale saranam,

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,

Varadarajan

Diwakar Kannan

Thu, 1 Aug 2002 06:49:31 -0700 (PDT)

Koodalur and kapisthalam

 

Dear bhagavathas

adiyEn is really pained to see Smt. Jayashree

Saranathan's mail about about Koodalur and Kapisthalam

divya desams. During my recent trip to India visited

these DDs and cried seeing Sri Jagathratshaka perumAL.

Not even a dry flower on the Thirumeni of the

perumAL. Heard from the bhattar that he is paid Rs.

130 by the govt. He comes from another village called

Ganapathi agraharam and the so called salary will not

even cover the bus charge. There are no lights, not

even in the madapalli and I have made arrangements to

do some basic electrification work, which will be

completed soon.

 

State of affairs at Kapisthalam is no better.

Bhattar's salary is Rs. 17 and he has not received it

for so many years now. It seems the temple is under

some private trust and due to litigation nobody takes

care of the temple. After a lots of hesitation

bhattar asked us to get some vasthram for Thayar.

Bhattar said, "neenga swaroopama vandurukel, adunAla

kEkarEn, thAyArukku vasthram vAngi thara mudiyuma".

How can I not oblige when the lOka nAyaki doesn't have

vasthram!

 

I believe the role of HR & CE in temple management was

dicussed with great passion in these lists before.

The least we can do is to support organizations

involved in arranging daily thiruvArAdhanam in these

temples. Also please visit these divya dEsams at the

earliest opportunity.

 

adiyEn

Diwakar